Self-described Christian Nationalism is not the radicalization of a Christian worldview, but the Christianization of a radical worldview. Though the men of this movement insist that they are recovering a Reformation-era magisterial Protestantism that was lost to the “postwar consensus,” in reality, they do not start from a position of 16th-century principles and then make use of certain prewar political notions. Instead, they approach their philosophy from the opposite direction. Reformation thought is selectively, and dishonestly, quoted to support interwar political suppositions that, on the other side of the atrocities committed in the second conflict, are taboo for good reason.